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Dyson V16 Piston Animal Submarine Review: Powerful but Pricey
Wired has reviewed the Dyson V16 Piston Animal, and its wet-mopping Submarine variant, which is now the company’s most powerful stick vacuum, replacing the Gen5Detect that had held the title since 2023. The review finds it a strong all-rounder, particularly praising a new dual-surface cleaner head, but questions whether the extra power and price justify…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 is getting a Fallout-inspired homesteading mod with fully customisable houses, and its creator has tons of big ideas for it
A modder working under the name SonicaKP is developing a new mod for Dragon’s Dogma 2 that introduces Fallout-style homesteading, allowing players to build and furnish their own houses from scratch. The mod, shown in a gameplay demo, lets users construct a home in the countryside using gathered resources and decorate it with furniture bought…
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Low number of Sheffield council staff use whistleblowing policy to report wrongdoing
Sheffield Council has reported that relatively few employees have used its whistleblowing policy to raise concerns about wrongdoing. The finding matters because whistleblowing procedures are intended to help organisations identify misconduct, protect staff who report it and maintain public confidence in local government. The report concerns formal use of the council’s policy, rather than necessarily…
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Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock
Arista has released patches for a maximum-severity vulnerability in its VeloCloud Orchestrator software after confirming attackers were already exploiting it, prompting the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. The bug affects the on-premises, self-hosted version of the orchestrator, which enterprises use to centrally manage…
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Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
A new report from European nonprofit AI Forensics has found that Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI model repository, is doing little to stop the AI models it hosts from being used to create nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes. Researchers found that seven of the top nine image-editing models on the platform readily complied with simple requests…
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ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors’ styles
ChatGPT has begun refusing to write text that imitates the distinctive style of famous authors, whether living or dead, according to testing by Ars Technica and Engadget. This marks a shift from previous behaviour, as a recent study by publication No Latency had found the chatbot did not refuse such requests when the author in…
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AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks
A sell-off in AI-related shares deepened on Tuesday, pushing South Korea’s stock market to its lowest level in three months, as investors grew increasingly anxious about heavy borrowing by AI firms to fund datacentre expansion. Chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell by more than 10%, dragging down the Kospi index, in a move…
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A self-emptying, frictionless marvel: Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean and Empty Pet Pro review
The Shark PowerDetect Speed Clean and Empty Pet Pro is a cordless vacuum cleaner designed to remove the usual hassles of vacuuming, thanks to a self-emptying, self-charging base station. The Guardian’s reviewer found it excelled on hard floors and at picking up pet hair, but was let down by a battery life that proved shorter…
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Ariana Grande sues hackers who leaked music and videos
Ariana Grande has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against two unidentified hackers accused of leaking her unreleased music, demos and studio footage after breaking into the computers and devices of photographers and producers who worked with her. The singer claims the material was sold “on the dark web” for significant sums, describing a years-long…